ScienceDirect now includes 25,000 science and technology books - December 16, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that ScienceDirect now includes 25,000 science and technology books. This increases the depth and breadth of Elsevier's book content available on the platform. The 25,000th book published and added to the database is Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the Environment… Read More
The London Book Fair to launch London Book and Screen Week 2014, announces move to Olympia in 2015 - December 13, 2013
Events organiser Reed Exhibitions has announced that The London Book Fair 2014 will be the last to take place in its current location, Earls Court. Following the substantial coverage in the media regarding The Earls Court Opportunity Area, the future of Earls… Read More
IMS Health unveils Cloud-based mobile health prescribing solution and secure platform for health app development - December 12, 2013
Information, technology and services provider IMS Health has announced the immediate availability of AppScript, an mHealth app prescribing solution designed to help healthcare providers and health plans create proprietary formularies based on an objective assessment of healthcare app functionality and value. The company also announced the… Read More
Digital Science donates SureChem data of more than 15 million chemical compounds and patents to EMBL-EBI - December 12, 2013
Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Science & Education, is donating the SureChem collection of more than15 million chemical structures from world patents into the public domain through the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). It is the first time a world patent chemistry collection has been made… Read More
Thomson Reuters acquires AVEDAS, expands scholarly-research analytics solution - December 11, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has acquired German-based AVEDAS, a company specialising in the development and implementation of current research information systems. AVEDAS will be integrated into the Scientific and Scholarly Research unit of Thomson Reuters. AVEDAS' flagship research information system, CONVERIS®… Read More
Chemical Abstracts Service and PerkinElmer collaborate to enhance efficiency of researchers’ workflows - December 10, 2013
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, and PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, have announced a collaboration to combine the power of two leading chemistry solutions - SciFinder and ChemBioDraw. The… Read More
